On Saturday, December 25, 2004, at 07:07 PM, rb wrote:
is there a list of the new key commands somewhere?
i'm lost!
Select Mac Help while in the finder, search for Keyboard shortcuts, you'll get a bunch of hits.; there's also a link there for "get started fast if you're coming from Mac OS 9 computer"
MOST key commands are the same Command-X,C,V,S do the same as OS 9. The big one that got me when transitioning, is command-n is new window in the finder, command-N (using the shift key) is to create a new folder.
Beyond this, look in help or tell us what it is you're trying to do.
Also, what version of OS X are you trying this in? If it's 10.0 or 10.1, run away, screaming. OS X didn't, imo, become usable 'till 10.2, which was the most significant upgrade of any Mac os, ever, 10.1 to 10.2 was sort of like if they had gone from System 6 to System 8 in one fell swoop.
also, does anyone "dislike" the look & feel of os x?
Many, many people dislike it. Many, many people love it. Many, many come to love it. It's different. At first I was largely lost. After a few years of OS X it's as right and proper to me as OS 9 was...now OS 9 looks and feels like a primitive copy of OS X to me.
i'm not liking the new interface and the way the file sytem and windows work.
Give them a chance. The column view file browser is a wonderful tool for diggint into and out of nested folders.
The file system makes sense, it's just not what it used to be.
I've shepherded a number of people transitioning between OS 9 and Windows to OS X. The folks moving from OS 9 have, at times, had more trouble, mostly because it's enough alike OS 9 to get you to expect everything to work the way it did, and enough unlike to trip you up when you do.
The big thing that trips people up is the inherent mutiuser-ness of OS X. In OS 9 you owned everything. You could get into the System and muck about, and no one ever told you you could or couldn't. (until all you got on boot was a flashing question mark, of course ;-) In OS X, you can't do this mucking around. On the plus side, you don't HAVE to muck around. My OSX system at work gets rebooted only when a software update forces it.
I've had ONE crash in all the time I've been running OS X on it, and as far as I can remember, only a few on my system at home in a couple of years of running OS X as my primary OS.
In OS X you're a user on the system, and you keep getting asked about doing things and entering passwords, etc.
This is a big thing for many old mac users. They feel that some control of their computer has been taken away. This is wrong, though. When you're being asked for a password you're really being asked to make sure it's really YOU who's asking for a change, and not some other user or agent, such as a virus or hacker.
If you truly want to experience what using a truly multiuser system without this precaution is like, use Windows for a while. In Windows XP if you're logged on as an administrator, your permission to do things is *assumed* and assumed it is, by viruses, spyware and other malware galore.
<shudder> We ran into a Win XP system the other day that was so deeply infested with some spyware we had no choice but to nuke&pave it, and we're experienced in this stuff, we're *good* at it. I'm this >< close to convincing the other guy in my office that Macs are, in fact, better general-use computers (He's a gamezboy and of course needs his PC for that..I tell him, look at it like it's a big Nintendo box.).
and hazy looking text on grey or colored backrounds, etc.
You can get rid of most text smoothing in the Appearance prefs (aka control panels) in the General pane. There are third-party pref panes that let you turn it off completely.
However, this, too, is largely a 'getting used to it' thing. After a while, OS 9 screens look clunky and pixelated.
It does largely depend on your monitors, though. Good sharp monitors are needed for it to become non-icky. If you've got old, fuzzy CRT's you've been font smoothing all along and the added stuff in OS X fuzzes it out completely.;-)
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